MBI Staff Member – Personal info
Dr. Michael Woerner
michael.woerner(at)mbi-berlin.de
+49 30 6392 1470
C3: Femtosecond Spectroscopy of Solids
Building C, 1.2
Position
- Head of Department C3 "Femtosecond Spectroscopy on Solids"
- Coordinator of Project 3.2 "Solids and Nanostructures: Electrons, Spins, and Phonons"
- Coordinator of Project 3.3 "Transient Structures and Imaging with X-rays"
Research
I am interested in ultrafast and nonlinear phenomena in condensed matter, in particular organic and inorganic solids and nanostructures. To this end, I generate and apply ultrashort pulses in a wide spectral range (THz to hard x-ray) to measure the nonequilibrium dynamics of elementary excitations in solids and the ultrafast structural dynamics of crystalline material. Most recent activities are two-dimensional spectroscopy in the THz frequency range (Figure: two phonon coherences in InSb) and femtosecond x-ray absorption experiments using table top high harmonic sources.
Curriculum vitae
1981-1988 Study of physics at the Technical University (TU) of Munich
1988-1991 PhD Work at TU Munich, Physics Department E11 (Prof. W. Kaiser)
1991 Graduation (Dr. rer. nat.) at the TU
1991-1993 Postdoctoral Researcher at the Physics Department E11, TU Munich
1993-1996 Postdoctoral Researcher at the Max-Born-Institute, Berlin
1997 Postdoctoral Researcher at Bell Laboratories (Lucent), Holmdel, NJ, USA
since 1997 Department head of C3 at the Max-Born-Institute, Berlin
1999 Habilitation at the Humboldt University Berlin
Recent highlight(s)
Electric polarization in the macroscopic world and electrons moving at atomic scales
Wiggling atoms switch the electric polarization of crystals
Quantum Swing - a pendulum that moves forward and backwards at the same time
Amplification of Sound Waves at Extreme Frequencies
Hot means slow: Electron plasma oscillations tuned down with light
The longer the better: Optical long-wavelength pulses generate brilliant ultrashort hard x-ray flashes
MBI Publications
- Water librations in the hydration shell of phospholipids Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 8 (2017) 4492-4497
- Strong local-field enhancement of the nonlinear soft-mode response in a molecular crystal Physical Review Letters 119 (2017) 097404/1-6
- Nonlinear terahertz spectroscopy on multilayer graphene Optical Properties of Graphene World Scientific (2017) 269-294
- Towards shot-noise limited diffraction experiments with table-top femtosecond hard x-ray sources Structural Dynamics 4 (2017) 054304/1-11
- Mid-infrared beam splitter for ultrashort pulses Optics Letters 52 (2017) 2918-2921
- Atomschwingungen in Superzeitlupe Physik in unserer Zeit 48 (2017) 113-114
- Multidimensional Terahertz Spectroscopy Reference Module in Materials Science and Materials Engineering 2017 Online Elsevier (2017)
- Ultrafast modulation of electronic structure by coherent phonon excitations Physical Review B (R) 95 (2017) 081101/1-5
- Two-phonon quantum coherences in InSb studied by two-dimensional terahertz spectroscopy Ultrafast Phenomena XX Optical Society of America (2016) UTu2B.7/1-3
- Phase-resolved two-dimensional terahertz spectroscopy including off-resonant interactions beyond the χ(3) limit Journal of Chemical Physics 144 (2016) 184202/1-10